Friday, September 27, 2013

Why Goodreads API is a Fraud and the Site Needs to be Taken Down.

The goodreads site has been corrupted
beyond redemption. Short of dumping everything and starting over
there is no hope of saving it.

Here are a few examples of how the
stalker troll gang operates. This is maliciously rating books down
to intentionally hurt the sales of books, incurring real monetary
damages on authors.

Here is a book and it's rating on
Amazon.

This book is rated 4.25 stars
legitimately on the venue where it's sold.

Yet on goodreads this same book has
been maliciously down rated to this:

The reason for this is since the
goodreads shake-up to supposedly stop personal attacks on authors
this book has been 1-stared a dozen times actually making the
situation worse not better.

Here's another example:

This book is rated 4.25 stars
legitimately on the venue where it's sold.

Yet again on goodreads this same book
has been maliciously down rated to this:

This goes for all my books, all my
friends books, every author ever mentioned on STGRB, and god knows
how many others.

Since goodreads boasts 20 million
members and 25 million reviews the likelihood there is any fix for
this damage done to author's livelihood and goodreads short of
rebooting the whole site and starting over is nil.

So now the question remains who is
gonna pay for the million in lost revenue cause by these trolls.
Clearly the liability falls squarely on goodreads. Regardless of any
disclaimers of not being responsible for content put on the site by
members falls apart in the face of the fact goodreads has been made
aware of this problem but has refused to do a thing.

Even more damaging is the fact they
have a policy of banning authors who complain of this problem thereby
condoning and contributing to the problems.

So any pretense of innocence on the
part of goodreads will fail in a lawsuit.

Here is proof the fraudulent ratings
can and will be pulled by the Goodreads API:

These fraudulent ratings must be
removed from goodreads but the likelyhood of anyone going through 20
million accounts to find them is impossible. That is why goodreads
has to be removed. There simply is no way to repair the damage.
Simply stated Goodreads is damaged beyond repair.

Sadly the very same people who
intentionally destroyed goodreads are now invading the Booklikes
site.

Here are three no-read attack reviews
that I've found on Booklikes so far. I am sure there will be many
more to come.

Booklikes also has an API and those
vindictive, fraudulent ratings being imported from goodreads will
also be pulled from the booklikes API. Regardless of what they say
hiding the fraudulent info does not stop the data from being pulled,
only removing it does.

The influx of false date from the new
members, the stalker trolls from goodreads, must be stopped. It
already may be too late since the trolls have been uploading their
filth there for the last week. So much so they've had to add servers
to hold it all. Very bad for authors and very bad for Booklikes.

There will be no relief from the
stalker trolls until we manage to get legislation passed that
addresses their gang-related activity and the malicious use of
aliases. We can track down individual trolls and bring legal
actions, we can sympathize with attacked authors, we can target
trolls using aliases but legislation is the only thing that will stop them.